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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Without hardcode changes, I can only think of using the combination of both abilities in the drone. Terribly easy to abuse by just letting the drone sit over and improve one of your own colonies, though.
Fair point S-J but if the genesis drone accurately reflected the Trekkie original, any use of it on a planet would wipe out all your colonists as well as 'terraforming' the planet.
Bit drastic to do that and I suppose you could deal with such self-genocide by making the morale of your empire go straight to rioting if you tried this.
The best use of the genesis device I think would be as the top slot of any terraforming tech (sorry, only on my second game of SEIV and havn't discovered the terraforming tech yet) and which you could use to turn non-colonisable planets into colonisable planets.
Only a thought
[ 19 December 2001: Message edited by: Growltigga ]